Wrapping Up Our Dr. Seuss Unit!

I must say that I was definitely not expecting two snow days in a row this week! It was a nice little midweek break, but it definitely shortened our last week of the Dr. Seuss unit.
Our last book that we studied was "Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!" We learned about how this book would never have been published without the help of Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith. Before Dr. Seuss passed away in 1991, he had only some rough sketches and outlines. These sketches are actually published in the back of the book! It was really interesting to see how Lane Smith, the illustrator, and Jack Prelutsky, the poet, elaborated on Dr. Seuss's original ideas.
To celebrate the ideas in "Diffendoofer Day", we discussed what makes a school special and different. A lot of the students agreed that it was the teachers and staff in the school that makes it special!! Using this, we created our own teachers and staff for our own school. We used a combination of collage and art supplies to create our own illustrations in the style of Dr. Seuss and Lane Smith.
It was a lot of fun and we were able to listen to the audio book of "The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories" while we worked.

Kiddos using magazine clippings for their collage!